Mega Man X3: Zero Project | "X and Zero, 100%" Speedrun in

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This is a 100% Speedrun of the Mega Man X3 Rom Hack "Zero Project", with both characters!
In this run, I can choose which character I wanna use on a stage, I will also give X Zero's Saber and get the "Doppler's Sacrifice" ending, since that makes the Boss Rush and the Final Boss faster.

For those who don't know what Zero Project is, it's a rom hack of Mega Man X3 made by Justin3009.
In this hack, you can play as Zero with no restrictions, and this hack also added more improvements to the game.

You can download the hack here: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4086/
This run was done on version 4.4 of the hack.

This rom hack has done a lot of changes to the game that I want to point out:
-In the Vanilla game, you have to get the Ride Armor from Hornet to start spawning Ride Armors, but here in this hack, you can start spawning Ride Armors when collecting any Ride Armor. Thanks to this change, we don't have to visit Hornet before Catfish and Crawfish, this allows many new routes to be possible, and we don't have to revisit Beetle's stage.
-The quick kill on Crawfish unfortunately doesn't work in this hack. I think it did work on older versions, but in this current version we're playing, it's gone.
Because of this, I had to use a different strat for Crawfish. :/
-Charged shots are buffed, in vanilla you had to wait for a few seconds until the next one can hit a boss, but in this hack, all of them can hit a boss at once. This buff allowed me to come up with new boss fight strats.
-Hyper C. works different in this hack. In the vanilla game, it can pull out the saber, but here in this hack, it can't. That sounds bad, until you realize that Charged Shots are buffed in this hack! And so in this hack, we spam Hyper C. shots on some boss fights.
-Zero's saber can destroy the rocks in Rhino's stage, so we don't have to revisit that stage anymore.
-When Bit and Byte appear is completly random. In vanilla, Bit always appears before Byte, Seahorse was used as a split for the stages where Bit can appear, and Crawfish was used as a split for stages where Byte appears. In this hack though, it's completly random who appears first, and when the other one appears, so I had no choice but to make a "8 Mavericks Defeated" split.

Now, let's talk about the route:

In vanilla, the 100% route is Tunnel Rhino, Blizzard Buffalo, Neon Tiger, Gravity Beetle, Toxic Seahorse, Blast Hornet, Volt Catfish, Crush Crawfish (+Vile), and 2 revisits.
In this hack though, a lot of new ways are possible, and this is the route that I choosed for this run:
Toxic Seahorse, Tunnel Rhino, Volt Catfish, Blizzard Buffalo, Neon Tiger, Crush Crawfish (+Vile), Blast Hornet, Gravity Beetle, and no revisits.

This new route is possible, thanks to Zero's power and neon jumps in the early game, and the big change to Ride Armors! :)
Not gonna lie, beating X3 without backtracking feels weird. xD
But yeah, that's all I have to say! ^^

Played on Retroarch for Steam with Snes9x core.
This is not from a livestream this is just a recording, I don't know if I'll ever stream yet.

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